St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-10-15

| colonel K. &. Lowe, of the Galveston
Ne~s has been arrested charged with labor
ing on Sunday, in violation Of law, and with
compelling his EMPLOYEES to labor on Sun
day. lie was released on parole pending a
hearing. The last Legislature passed sweep
ing sunday law, and through its editorial
coltmns the Ners has urgently demanded a
strict enforcement of the law. Mr.. Lowe
proposes to carry the case to the Supreme
Court on the ground that the special exemp-
ton to sell newspapers carries with it the
right to publish the same on Sunday.
The Anti-Poverty Society of Chicago has
distributed a subscription list in aid of the
| Henry George movement in New York, and
also put into circulation a list Of inquiries in
regard to the feeling Of the people on the
subject OF a free-land movement The in
qulrles, when answered, are to be returned
to the society's headquarters.
The latest returns from Tennessee indicate
a majority of IS, 900 to 10000 against thepro-
hlbltiOn amendment.
The Secretary Ofthe Interior has received
report from General Crook on the recent Ute
| Indian troubles in Garfield county, Col. The
difficulty was caused by the attempt to serve
| warrants for the arrest of two of the Indians
for horse stealing, and for twelve others for
violations Of the game laws. The report
says that there is no question that the war
rants could have been served without diff
Guilty had their service been properly under
| taken. General Crook says the arrival OF
| Lieutenant Burnett saved the lives Of Sheriff
kendalPs entire party and prevented
| serious outbreak.
Captain Pierce in command of the San
Carlos agency, Arizona, says respecting the
| recent Indian troubles at that place, that
when the sheriff arrived with twenty men,
Eskimizin agreed to surrender with his men,
and arrangements were made for the trial
next day before Judge Scott at San Pedro.
| Six Indians came in, and EskimZen was to
come in the next morning. That nights chow
ever, armed white men came from all drec-
tons, and, when Eskimizin learned Of the
situation, he decided not to come III, but to
| report to the military officer in charge of
the agency. The judge and district attorney
disagreed as to jurisdiction, and the six In
| Glans were taken to Florence for trial
Mrs. Van Zandt, the mother of Nina Van
Zandt, who was married by proxy to An
| archist Spies, has arrived in Pittsburg from
Chicago. In an interview she said the An
| archists still have hopes of recovering their
freedom or being granted reprieve. She
said her daughter was acquainted with Spies
long before the Anarchists were arrested,
and they would probably have been married.
but Spies was too poor. He had mother
to support.
Martin & Co., wholesale dealers in fish
and dried fruits, of Denver Col, have COM
planned to the interstate commerce COM
mittee that the Southern Pacific, Union
Pacific and Central Pacific railroads have
violated the interstate commerce law, in
that the said firm are compelled to pay said
roads from So 80 to $265 per hundred on
shipments from San Francisco TO Denver,
while from San Francisco to Missouri river
points, a distance of 600 miles further, the
roads charge but 81 05 per hundred, thereby
discriminating against complanants, as well
as the city of Denver
The Secretary of the Interior has reversed
the decision of the commissioner of the gen.
eral land office, in the case of Donald McRae
against the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany. The question is whether the COM
paHS Ids d SIdLI Vi IdlluS lTDIu
Ore, to Puget Sound, W. T., distance
of forty miles. The commissioner found the
company had no grant. This decision the
Secretary reverses, and finds that Congress
made grant of land between those points
1t is said that about ], 600 acres are in
volyed.
John J. Gist, of Ohio, has brought suit
against Hodgen & Miller, grain and COM
mission dealers in Louisville, KY, to recover
S31, ,7S6. He alleges that the firm conducts a
'bucket shop" and that between December,
1885, and April, 1886, he lost to them on
wagering contracts the sum be seeks to re-
cover. He claims that the contracts were
not bona fide business transactions, but
gambling. Last fall similar case in the
same court was decided in favor of the plain
tiff.
The estimated reduction of the public
debt for the month of September is $l6,5OO,-
600.
The comptroller of the currency has au-
thorized the National Bank of Paola, Kan,
to begin business with capital of 100000. !
A communication has been received at the |
Treasury Department from a German cap-
tallst in Berlin. He says he has in his pos |
session large number of bonds issued by |
the Confederate States of America, and |
after much persuasion by his friends, he has
consented to offer 81 900 worth of them for
redemption.
The steamer T. B. Sims, from St. Louis
for Memphis, with cargo including 275
bales of cotton and 5000 barrels of -four and
meal, has been burned at Island Forty, six
teen miles above Memphis. The charred
remains of man. supposed to be passen-
ger named Buck, were found in the wreck,
and a roustabout and deck passenger were
reported missing. The Sims was valued at
$4,000, and insured for $4,000. Her cargo
was also insured.
Two passenger trains on the Missouri Pa
cific railroad collided at Valley Park station,
about nineteen miles from St. Louis. The
engineer and porter on the express train were
injured.
Joshua FAIL, of Auburn, Schuylkill
county, Pa, fell from coal train while pass
ing through Reading, Pa, and was instantly
killed.
Jacob simm, fifty years old, an employee